The Far River, Paperback

Reducere. In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the...

Reducere. The book is based on an international research project that analyzed sixty LEPs, among them the Boston Harbor cleanup; the first phase of subway co...

Reducere. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of t...

Reducere. The Abalone Ukulele: A Tale of Far Eastern Intrigue is an historical novel set in 1913 Shanghai, where four cultures are about to collide: China, K...

Reducere. For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope t...

Reducere. The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converge...

Reducere. In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award winning author Ken Baird comes the sequel to Yukon Audit.Meet C.E. Brody, a Yukon renaissance man who leads a solitary life o...

Reducere. John Muir's Great Hike to the Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean WatersThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1916 A...

Reducere. More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy ...

Reducere. "An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber exper...

Reducere. For nearly a century, movies have been made in Montana. The state played itself in Cattle Queen of Montana, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Winter in th...

Reducere. Description'The blood shone black as liquid night, as the River of the Underland. It tasted meat-thick, and salt, and sweet, familiar as wine or mi...

Reducere. "Dramatic ... convincing historical detail that really distinguishes this novel] from the competition." --Publisher's WeeklyThe US Navy has won Gua...

The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, p...

Reducere. DescriptionOn August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Flo...

Reducere. From 1870 until 1886 Captain John O. Bourke served on the staff of General George Crook, who Sherman described as the greatest Indian fighter the a...

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man--Heraclitus Militancy convulsed Punjab from roughl...

Reducere. Over three centuries ago, the Dutch colonized a large portion of the northeastern United States. This area, called New Netherland, included New Yor...

Reducere. Jim Bean comes face to face with his greatest adversary so far-a con woman who is as clever as she is dangerous.Stella DeSoto has had it with Vegas...

Reducere. "The insect-world is altogether a world of goblins and fairies." - "S mi"As Lafcadio Hearn observes in his essay "Insects in Greek Poetry", "the ca...

Reducere. "Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?" - Shirley JacksonA woman returns home to revisit an encounter with the numinous; cou...

Reducere. "Far more than a legal thriller, though it is that . . . Some of this tale will sound disturbingly familiar to readers in the 21st Century, all the...

Reducere. Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely pop...

Reducere. Public defender Ashley Montgomery's latest case will push her to the limit."Twisty crimes and complicated relationships...you won't want to miss." ...

Reducere. While South Carolina has the most famous Charles Towne in Carolina, the first one was along the banks of the Cape Fear River. Between 1664-1667, Ba...

Reducere. DescriptionIn December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross r...

Hemingway would have been impressed. In a stunning combination of superb color images and literary yet lively personal essays, celebrated angling p...

Reducere. DescriptionOn Colorado's Western Slope, Parachute Creek joins the mighty Colorado River in its journey to the Gulf of California. Ute Indians hunte...

Reducere. Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin. It tells the love story of a young Chinese couple during...

Reducere. When her niece goes missing, Sheriff Kate Fox dives into a lethal investigation that unearths long-buried secrets-and a secret society desperate to...

Reducere. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle a...

Reducere. Kidnapping by renegade outlawsSurvival on the frontier was not guaranteedThe definitive edition.Large Print EditionFeatures an extended biography o...

Reducere. Heartwarming and compelling stories of loyalty, brotherhood, sacrifice, and heroism.Across from the Potomac River from Washington DC lies this nati...

Reducere. It began with the discovery of three women's bodies found near suburban Seattle's Green River in August, 1982. Soon more corpses and human remains ...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire...

Reducere. Acclaimed author Brian Shea is back with SIGN OF THE MAKER, the fourth book in his heart-pounding Boston Crime Thriller Series."Brian Shea is the r...

Reducere. "Appalachian Indian Trails of the Chickamauga: Lower Cherokee Settlements" is definitely a must read for anyone interested in the ancestral landsca...

Sid McDaniel must beat the Deep State on their ground--but he refuses to do it on their terms. Sid McDaniel--an undercover cyber hunter who catches...

Reducere. The Morris Canal was not the longest canal in the world, but it did have one superlative to its credit�it climbed higher than any other canal ever ...

Reducere. In 1971 William Kelso happened almost by chance on an archaeological find that would open a new door on the rural history of colonial Tidewater Vir...

Reducere. Ed Farlow seems to have been present at every important historic event in the West. If he wasn't, he knew someone who was. In this historic memoir ...

Reducere. In the vein of K. Arsenault Rivera and V.E. Schwab comes the newest epic fantasy book in the stunning Earthsinger Chronicles, L. Penelope's Cry of ...

This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Senegal continues to offer far and away the greatest depth of coverage for this increasingly popula...

DescriptionA timely and shocking thriller about a young woman who is the target of a social-media smear campaign. "Smart, sardonic, sexy, suspensef...

Dead Man Drowning.Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic.But when "Elvis the Escape King" chains and nails himself inside a coffin in Montreal's...

DescriptionSince Naperville sprang from the northern Illinois prairie, it has maintained an unmistakably fascinating heritage. The settlers who fol...

Andrievs Radvilis is a former jockey on the Riga trotting track whose solitary retirement is interrupted when a young journalist comes to interview...

Hispanics are embracing the gospel in record numbers, swelling to well over 150 million believers today. In light of such unprecedented growth, eva...

Reducere. "Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New...

Reducere. Author of the acclaimed fantasy novel "Little Sister", Kara Dalkey has created a new, epic historical fantasy novel that takes us on a harrowing jo...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

Reducere. On the bustling docks along the River Thames, Great Britain's merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alle...

Reducere. On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. Each year, from summe...

Reducere. This is a story of adventure, friendship, and surprising discovery written by English author, Gillian Blackah-Kingsley, and beautifully illustrated...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Irish Celtic lore, ""thin places"" are those locales where the veil between this world and the otherworld is porous, where there is m...

Reducere. Less than a week before Christmas, Columbus Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner receive a call from dispatch.The body of a young woman has be...

Reducere. Sara's husband was a disappointment in life, but she had to admit he was a handsome corpse.Climb aboard an 1856 Dallas-bound wagon train and join ...

Reducere. The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial ci...

Reducere. Hailed by Ezra Pound as the "American Ovid" and renowned as a linguist and a self-described "amateur anthropologist, " Jaime de Angulo drew on his ...

Reducere. The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics. Traveling today I found...

Reducere. These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, dese...

Reducere. After purchasing a large parcel of land west of Walsenburg, Colorado, the Demming brothers Chance. Woody and Curtis discovered an old burial site o...

Immortalized by the movie A Bridge Too Far, the parachute landings of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were the first part of an Allied breakt...

Reducere. Abby Carpenter is in a tailspin knowing she is about to spend ten days in the company of her ex-girlfriend--who is now engaged to her brother--for ...

Reducere. WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure pion...

Contributor(s): Author: Anne WestcottAuthor: C. C. Alicia HuIllustrator: Ching-Pang KuoSprinkle the pig has moved to a new house, with a new family...

Five newcomers arrive at the 1998 Settlers' Reunion at the mid-Columbia River: two anthropologists drawn by the storytelling, two on special missio...